Sahu Jain family

Sahu Jain family is an industrial family of India. They own Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. (commonly known as The Times Group), which owns The Times of India, the most widespread selling English newspaper in the world. The members of the extended family have interests in education (S P Jain School of Global Management), chemicals (DCW Ltd.) and finance (DoubleDot Ltd. and Crescent Finstock Ltd).

Sahu Jain family
Current regionNajibabad, Bijnor district, Uttar Pradesh, India
Members
DistinctionsOwners of Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd.

They are of Agrawal Jain community.[1] Sahu Jain hails from a small town of Najibabad, Bijnor district (near Meerut, 180 km from Delhi), Uttar Pradesh, India.[2]

Members

The leading members of the family have been Rai Bahadur Jagmundar Das Jain, Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain, Sahu Shreyans Prasad Jain, Sahu Ashok Kumar Jain Sahu Ramesh Chandra Jain, Sahu Samir Jain, Sahu Vineet Jain, Sahu Deepak Jain and Indu Jain.

Jnanpith Awards, are given by the Bharatiya Jnanpith organization founded by the family. The group has also founded a few other awards that are coveted honours in the fields of fashion, movies and business in India - namely the Miss India title, Filmfare Awards (movies) and the Economic Times Awards for Corporate Excellence.

The Times Group has diversified into many fields. The Times of India (world's largest circulated English newspaper), the Economic Times, FM Radio Mirchi, the biweekly magazine Femina India, the Indiatimes portal, the 24 hours English news channel Times Now, the Bollywood news and music channel Zoom are owned by the Sahu Jain family.

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See also

References
  1. Jain Jagaran ke Agradut, A.P. Goyaliya, 1952, Bharatiya Jnanapitha
  2. 'Progressive Jains' by Mr. Satish Kumar Jain
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